[ILUG] Re: [OT, rant] e-mail "disclaimers"

Tue Jul 23 08:28:37 IST 2002

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:29:39 +0100 
Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie>  wrote:

|   |                     [ ... four (4) line question ... ]

|   | E-mail Disclaimer:  [ ... twenty-three (23) lines of FUD B*S* ... ]

| <rant>
|  am I the only one who thinks posting >20 lines of complete rubbish
|  threatening mayhem if the preceding e-mail content was read by its
|  recipients to a high-traffic, internationally-distributed, public,
|  archived list is inane?

But was the question on-topic? One might suggest that a 6k whinge to 
the ilug list (as opposed to, say, the social list) is also inane.

|  yes, I am well aware the poster quite possibly has no control over
|  the quite probably automatically-added garbage.

Yup, and the people involved in deciding what goes into that disclaimer 
are frequently from departments that are resistant to the suggestion of 
using a one liner with a URL.

|  I pay for my downloads and am as incensed by this sort of spamming
|  as I am by the UCE / porn / Nigerian fraud / whatevers (rants like
|  this?) spam.  I'd still be very annoyed even if I wasn't paying.

*Shrug* It takes me just under 5 minutes to download mail and news, 
that's fairly close to the minimal charge...

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There's a vague sense of irony about the being rounded off with a 
non-McQ sig. I'm sure this is the point where you tell us that 
son-of-1036 applies to Usenet as opposed to mailing list traffic, but 
it amused me all the same.
	Paul